Will there not be just as much of a carbon footprint from mining materials to make batteries for all the new electric cars?
And all the precious metals that go into making electronics to make that car operate?
Plus the power generation associated with charging everyone’s vehicle.
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The emissions during manufacturing are higher but with the current European energy mixture, it will take about 50.000 km of driving before the combustion car has emitted more than an equivalent electric car. This means that as long as a car is driven for more than 50.000 km during all of its lifetime, an electric car will have emitted less. Since cars usually drive 2-300.000 km before being scrapped, the lifetime emissions of am electrical car will be about a 4th or a 6th of that of a combustion car.
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